ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine

1999 Awardees and Reports

In the inaugural year of this program, the American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the awarding of Short-term Grants for Humanities Leadership in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Awards were made to individuals doing exemplary work in the humanities during a time of crisis and contraction. Fifty-five awards were made in amounts from $1,000 to $4,000.

Reports are provided in .pdf format; you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (available free of charge) if you do not already have it on your computer.

This program is made possible by funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. A list of recipients with city, institutional affiliation, and project title follows.

Short-term Grants for Projects in the Humanities

Natalia AVTONOMOVA (Moscow), Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Russian conceptual language and its encounter with contemporary Western thought. Report (PDF).

Maria CHYKALO (Lviv), The Krypiakevich Institute/Academy of Sciences. Proceeding from past into the future: a Ukrainian language dictionary of the 16th-first half of the 17th century.

Galina DERBINA (Minsk), Fr. Scaryna National Center for Education Research. The movement towards codification of law in the 16th century in Belarus and Poland. Report (PDF).

Grigoriy FAYMAN (Moscow), Nezavissimaya Gazeta (The Independent). Preparation and publication of an anthology based on archival material: Criminal History of Soviet Literature and Theater (abstracts). Report (PDF).

Vladimir FEDIUK (Yaroslavl), Yaroslavl State University. History of the VKPB: a short course in Stalinist and post-modernist readings, with historiographical comments.

Alexander FILJUSHKIN (Voronezh), Voronezh State University. Methodological revolution in modern Russian humanities disciplines: the problem of adequacy and prospects of mastering and developing Western theories and methods. Report (PDF).

Liudmila GATAGOVA (Moscow), Institute of Russian History, RAS. International relations within the Russian Empire, the USSR and the post-Soviet states: an aspect of conflict.

Roxana KHARCHUK (Kyiv), Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Poets’ use of the material of 20th century Ukrainian and Polish "village" prose.

Alexander KOLBASKO (Zaslawje), State Museum-Preserve of Belarus’an History and Culture. The adaptation of the archaeological site "Zamachak," an early Slavic settlement. Report (PDF).

Volodymyr KRAVCHENKO (Kharkiv), Kharkiv University. "Historiography of the History of Ukraine": course book for students and teachers.

Petro KULAKOVSKY (Ostroh), University of Ostroh Academy. Chancery of the Ruthenian/Volhynian Metrica, 1569-1673: studies of the history of Ukrainian regionalism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Report (PDF).

Khushkadam KURBANOV (Khmelnytskyj), Institute of Oriental Studies in Kyiv. Completion of an etymological dictionary of Shugnano-Rushan group of Pamir Iranian languages.

Vladimir LAPSHIN (St. Petersburg), Institute of the History of Material Culture, RAS. The rescue and research of Ancient Tver: an interdisciplinary study of a medieval town. Report (PDF).

Tatyana LAPTEVA (Moscow), The Russian State Archives of Ancient Records. An annotated bibliography of Catherine the Great: works and documents.

Vitalii MAKHLIN (Moscow), Moscow State Pedagogical University. Work on Cassirer, and Bakhtin: Translation (from German and English), criticism (an essay and two review articles), as well as editing (a collection of critical essays). Report (PDF).

Victor MALAKHOV (Kyiv), Institute of Philosophy, NAS. The philosophy and ethics of dialogue in the context of different cultural traditions.

Olga MANULKINA (St. Petersburg), St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Toward the unknown region: 20th century American music (lectures and essays).

Myroslav MARYNOVYCH (Lviv), Lviv Theological Academy. Christianity and Ukrainian society at the end of the 20th century. Report (PDF).

Alexander MOTSYA (Kyiv), National Ukraine Academy of Sciences. Study of spatial, ecological and economic features of population development in the unique cultural region of Polissya during the medieval period.

Natalia NUSSINOVA (Moscow), Film Art Research Institute. Russian emigré cinema in the US and Europe in the 20s and 30s.

Nikolai PANKOV (Vitebsk), Moscow M.V. Lomonosov State University. Materials for the creative history of M. Bakhtin's book Rabelais and his World.

Larissa PETINA (Tallinn), National Library of Estonia. The libraries of the Russian cultural societies in Estonia in the 19th-early 20th century. Report (PDF).